LunaSea

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by LunaSea 2y ago
Not if the site serves videos and has 2024-levels world traffic.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> The moderation probably plays a role in it, but that's also easily decoupled from big money. Do you believe that users are going to pay to get access to HN?
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by LunaSea 2y ago
High sales doesn't mean quality but it does reflect the choice of the majority. So if we were to move to a world where high quality productions were not feasible anymore for some reason or another then by definition most people would f
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> Y Combinator will continue to exist in a post-attention-economy world. They have proven themselves to be quite adaptable. That's not the question. Hacker News was used as an example of an old-school site that worked without moneti
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by LunaSea 2y ago
The same Slashdot that is monetised through advertisement with 500M monthly ad impressions? Source: https://slashdotmedia.com/advertising-and-marketing-services...
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Most people still seem to watch Hollywood quality movies so I don't know if your taste is very representative.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> filming with an 8k camera doesn't mean quality though, it just means more production/hosting costs... Quality is also a factor of time which unpaid people usually do not have enough of.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> What about HN? The same HN that is heavily moderated by a paid employee and paid for by a multi-billion dollars net worth company called YCombinator?
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> Since filming, editing, and streaming videos already consumes users' storage and bandwidth resources anyway, the total amount of resources available to a P2P torrent-style network clearly is already in the ballpark of what's
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> That's the general problem of economic inequality, though. It's not specific to the Internet. Yes, but advertisement showed that it wasn't a structural limitation and that other options were available. Even if said optio
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Which site from the 90s are you still visiting regularly in it's 90s form?
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by LunaSea 2y ago
99.99% of the web, full stop.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> And whenever any of these groups come up with a project they want to do, they won't have to ramp it up to billion dollar scale in order not to be drowned out by a terrible and loud commercial product. There will be plenty of broke
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Paid work holiday trips or conferences could simulate this missing social element for remote teams. Ironically enough it would be by bringing them back together (but maybe in a more fun way than a regular office).
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> You've never been in an office and had a productive, random interaction with a coworker? I absolutely did have these interactions but simply not online.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
> When the Internet was younger, people willingly paid for privilege of sharing content. Creation was the primary motivation; costs were a secondary concern. I think it resulted in more and better communities than today, where people pul
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by LunaSea 2y ago
The YouTube size estimates represent between 10 and 15 exabytes, that's not a possible volume for Torrents. And that is simply touching the easiest problem to solve which is the storage part. Serving the video fast with adaptive qualit
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by LunaSea 2y ago
"It's not stealing, I'm just freely accessing your paid content" - users
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by LunaSea 2y ago
This means that people without means will automatically be excluded from the internet. Also most people don't want to pay for content. This just means that 99.99% of the web will instantly disappear.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Most people won't pay for content, no matter how good it is. Especially for text content. People still download or stream movies and TV series even though there are multiple high quality and official streaming platforms.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
How can you say that the infrastructure costs are secondary? How do you think that the video content is going to be stored and served if not through paid infrastructure?
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by LunaSea 2y ago
In my experience forced online water cooler talk has never worked and was always incredibly awkward and boring.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
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It's hardly brain surgery is it?
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by LunaSea 2y ago
No poneys were harmed during this incident.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Wouldn't it be possible for you to lose jobs if no subscriber is listening?
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Could you explain your point in more details? Sorry, I'm not super knowledgable about this topic.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Lot's of people don't have the means, financial stability and minimum stay duration required to buy real estate. In my European country, you need to stay 5 years in the appartement you bought, otherwise you need to pay back a larg
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Life expectancy is lower in the US. About the same as Poland's.
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by LunaSea 2y ago
Barely enough to pay the CEO

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